“To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.” - Epictetus

Objective - Pertaining to the semantic role of a noun phrase that denotes something undergoing a change of state or bearing a neutral relation to the verb.

Accusative - The case of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb.

If I have this right what this means is that some pronouns are specifically what the verb of the sentence refers to. He ran. Who did? “He”. This would be the accusative case.

The pronouns me, us, her, him, them, whom, whomever are accusative.

You and it have the same forms in accusatives they do with nomanitive.

The same rules for pronouns also apply to nouns for the accusative case:

• Express the object of a verb, verbal or preposition. He pushed me.
• Express the object repeated. A lot of us students read the book. “Us” repeats “students” (though in advance).
• Express the object when the verb is omitted. — NEED EXAMPLE –
• Express the nominal before the infinitive. It was up to him to read the book. “Him” acts as a noun even though it is a pronoun.

Nominal - A word that is not a noun but functions as one.